During a week-long data sprint at the University of Amsterdam between 28 March and 1 April 2022, we set out to study how human-nature relations were (re)imagined during the first global COVID-19 lockdown across five major social media platforms: Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok . We analyzed the stance, affect, focus, and visual style…
DetailsThis post was written by Peter Safronov Affective valences of AI-assisted communication When dealing with algorithms, users frequently imbue them with affective valences (Bucher, 2017). People, for example, become emotionally invested while interacting with chatbots, much as they would with a human (Araujo, 2018). AI-powered technologies provide personalized experiences suited to the user’s specific wants…
DetailsThis post was written by Claire van den Helder How do international students in Amsterdam use Instagram to navigate their new social surroundings, and how do the perils and joys of curating messages shape their self-development? The project “On Display” seeks to understand how users craft and negotiate their Instagram presence by doing in-depth interviews…
DetailsThis post was written by Tristan Bannerman a Research Master’s student at the University of Amsterdam. A major theme of the recent GDC conference Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production was that of the sense of insecurity in labor and life that we find online, more succinctly we would say precarity. Precariousness in many…
DetailsThis post was written by Nadia Murady, a Research Master’s student at the University of Amsterdam. The conference ‘Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production’ addressed a wide range of issues and research areas. The two-day conference aimed to highlight a global perspective on these topics, steering away from a Eurocentric perspective. It facilitated an…
DetailsThis post is written by Sara Gelao, a Research Master’s student at the University of Amsterdam. Introduction Labor: digital, relational, immaterial, affective, cognitive, precarious, cultural, creative, free. All these buzzwords are an attempt to define what labor is today, fluid as it is. None of them is mutually exclusive, in fact, they all co-exist. What…
DetailsThis post was written by Sarah Vorndran, a Research Master’s student in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. And so it dawned on me – We have entered the era of the DAW Trying to achieve hip-hop’s beloved flow without a beat is like boiling pasta without water – it is possible but hardly…
DetailsThis post was written by Jasmin Leech, New Media and Digital Culture Research Master’s student, University of Amsterdam Introduction Value is an abstract, ever-evolving, and shifting concept. It informs what labor we perform; how we get compensated for it, and what we can do once we clock out. In the wake of the Global Digital…
DetailsThis post was written by Lars Klute, Research Master’s student, University of Amsterdam Interrogating the ‘Global’ What exactly does the ‘Global’ in Global Digital Cultures mean? Staking out this field, the website of the University of Amsterdam’s research priority area Global Digital Cultures (GDC) uses phrases such as “concerns the global variety of daily cultural…
DetailsThis post was written by Gaurika Chaturvedi, Research Master’s student, New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam What is authentic? This is a question that creators, audiences, advertisers, and researchers all ask themselves. Although that last group is preoccupied with how others perceive authenticity, they also have their own ideas. Due to a bit…
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